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Message-ID: <ffdd5d23-0080-6b00-1b46-2b7952200ac7@suse.cz>
Date:   Thu, 1 Feb 2018 09:46:38 +0100
From:   Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4.4 28/74] ACPI / scan: Prefer devices without _HID/_CID
 for _ADR matching

On 01/29/2018, 01:56 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> 
> commit c2a6bbaf0c5f90463a7011a295bbdb7e33c80b51 upstream.
> 
> The way acpi_find_child_device() works currently is that, if there
> are two (or more) devices with the same _ADR value in the same
> namespace scope (which is not specifically allowed by the spec and
> the OS behavior in that case is not defined), the first one of them
> found to be present (with the help of _STA) will be returned.
> 
> This covers the majority of cases, but is not sufficient if some of
> the devices in question have a _HID (or _CID) returning some valid
> ACPI/PNP device IDs (which is disallowed by the spec) and the
> ASL writers' expectation appears to be that the OS will match
> devices without a valid ACPI/PNP device ID against a given bus
> address first.
> 
> To cover this special case as well, modify find_child_checks()
> to prefer devices without ACPI/PNP device IDs over devices that
> have them.
> 
> Suggested-by: Mika Westerberg <mika.westerberg@...ux.intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>
> Tested-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>

You seem you took this from SLE12-SP2? But where did you take the
upstream commit SHA from? In SLE, I have "Git-commit: fdad4e7a876a2..."
which is the correct SHA of this patch. The above c2a6bbaf0c is a
different patch. So are your scripts broken or is this a manual oversight?

> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/acpi/glue.c |   12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> --- a/drivers/acpi/glue.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/glue.c
> @@ -99,13 +99,13 @@ static int find_child_checks(struct acpi
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  
>  	/*
> -	 * If the device has a _HID (or _CID) returning a valid ACPI/PNP
> -	 * device ID, it is better to make it look less attractive here, so that
> -	 * the other device with the same _ADR value (that may not have a valid
> -	 * device ID) can be matched going forward.  [This means a second spec
> -	 * violation in a row, so whatever we do here is best effort anyway.]
> +	 * If the device has a _HID returning a valid ACPI/PNP device ID, it is
> +	 * better to make it look less attractive here, so that the other device
> +	 * with the same _ADR value (that may not have a valid device ID) can be
> +	 * matched going forward.  [This means a second spec violation in a row,
> +	 * so whatever we do here is best effort anyway.]
>  	 */
> -	return sta_present && list_empty(&adev->pnp.ids) ?
> +	return sta_present && !adev->pnp.type.platform_id ?
>  			FIND_CHILD_MAX_SCORE : FIND_CHILD_MIN_SCORE;
>  }
>  
> 
> 


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